Football eh? Bloody hell…[…]

Calendars
My girlfriend bought me a West Ham calendar yesterday. January 26th is followed by the 27th, the 38th, then back to the 29th. Unfortunately, like last year’s play-off final, Crystal Palace have gone one better and missed out April alt[…]

Totally Magnificent Football Diversions
I regularly visit the messageboard associated with When Saturday Comes and two recent threads have provided much amusement and interest which to me represent the best of the interweb.
The first is where posters[…]

“Top of the league, and we’re having a laugh…”
Actually, I wasn’t. You could not call me a fairweather fan, considering that the first Barnet game I went to was on one of the coldest days of the year. Nevertheless I am a[…]

Boxing Gorilla!
Not much needs saying about this. It’s from 1951-53. It was brought to my attention by Dom Passantino, but originally rediscovered by RealInMemphis.co.uk. Note the second match on the bill…[…]

THE BEST BASKETBALL TEAM IN THE WORLD
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Pope John Paul II
After a half heard radio report this morning that today was the fourth anniversary of Pope John Paull II b[…]

What happened next
Portraits of the German 1974 World Cup Winning Team from a recent edition of Der Spiegel.
The same pages washed through Google’s translate tool are here in case you wanted to read the text in appalling English which adds noth[…]

Fantasy Football
(For the tiny handful of TMFD readers who don’t know about it…)
The Exeter City fans on TMFD have been rather quiet about it – whether through modesty or shock I’m not sure – but ECFC won their FA Cup 2n[…]

I was a touch hasty in stating there were no amputee/one-armed players in top flight football. H’kan S’derstjerna, a Swede who is a key player for Fredrikstad FK – as pointed out by OleM in the comments box below.
The EA Sports FIF[…]

Giving the crowd the finger: literally. This horrendous story is exactly why FIFA are penalizing excessive goal celebrations. Sooner or later someone is going to break their neck doing a backflip.
You might think that giving the player a yellow card[…]